KUALA LUMPUR: MALAYSIA AIRPORTS HOLDINGS BHD’s (MAHB) network of airports registered 4.8 million passengers in March 2020, a decline of 59.4% from a year, severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. It said on Friday passenger movements system-wide contracted to 4.8 million passengers in March. International and domestic passenger movements registered 1.7 million and three million passenger […]
Read MorePETALING JAYA: The government will allow an additional list of businesses to operate during the movement control order (MCO), but the health and safety of workers remains a top priority, says Senior Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali. The list includes traditional and complementary medicine, hardware and electrical shops, optometry, manned laundrettes and hair salons (restricted […]
Read MoreTop Glove Corp Bhd , the world’s biggest maker of medical gloves, plans to start producing face masks to meet rising demand from the coronavirus outbreak, a top executive told Reuters. The Malaysian company, which makes one out of every five gloves in the world, will have a facility ready in two months with a […]
Read MoreMalaysia’s hotels and tour operators are lamenting the limited assistance offered by the government’s latest economic stimulus package, which has dedicated an additional RM10 billion (US$2.3 billion) to lift SMEs impacted by the country’s movement control order (MCO). The latest stimulus package is the third of its kind introduced by the government, following a RM250 […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) – The coronavirus or COVID-19 outbreak, which is said to have originated at a wet market in Wuhan, China, has spread all over the world like lightning and was categorised as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on March 11. To date, the virus has infected over a million people in […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR, April 7 — The additional RM10 billion stimulus package for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) does not adequately protect workers whose wages fall between RM4,000 and RM8,000, the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) said. In a statement today, the MTUC’s secretary-general J. Solomon said the additional wage subsidy on top of an earlier […]
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